Ryu theme font color is overridden by gold?

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  roguepriest · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 6:21 am

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  My problem involves my blog RoguePriest.net and the theme Ryu, which is a lovely theme.

  I just switched over to Ryu last week, and the font shows in the wrong color. On the Ryu page (http://theme.wordpress.com/themes/ryu/) the example pictures clearly show that the font is black. However, on my website it’s gold. I do not like this.

  I tried the basics: Ryu offers color customization, but not for font color. I even when into the Custom Design upgrade preview, but the font color is set to black even as the preview shows gold.

  Importantly, the gold in question appears to be #a25c0b, which I have always used for my H3 tags. I checked and there are *no* html tags in my posts making the Paragraph font gold.

  Any ideas as to the cause, or how I can fix it?

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  roguepriest · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 3:45 pm

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  Ha! I’ve identified the problem.

  One of the widgets (which Ryu places in pull-down atop the page) included font color markup. When I removed this widget, the paragraph font went back to black. Somehow Ryu propagated this html tag across the whole page.

  I looked at the widget more closely. I had the font tag set up as:

  <font size="+1"><font color="#a25c0b"> (some text) </font>

  Only one /font tag for two font commands. This has never been an issue for me before – the single tag seemed to end both font commands in all previous themes – but I decided to try changing it.

  I changed it to:

  <font size="+1" color="#a25c0b"> (some text) </font>

  When I put the widget back atop the page, the Paragraph color stayed black. Problem solved.

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  eurello · Staff · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:14 pm

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  Hi Drew – Excellent troubleshooting! I’m glad you figured this out, and thanks for sharing for the benefit of anyone else who might have a similar problem. :)

  Let us know if you need anything else!

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  roguepriest · Member · Sep 17, 2013 at 5:40 pm

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  Nothing else needed Eurello, though I would suggest that html markup within a widget should be confined to the widget – it shouldn’t affect text elsewhere. This seems like a design oversight in Ryu.